French director Christian Carion, on DRIVING MADELEINE

French director Christian Carion, on DRIVING MADELEINE

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French filmmaker Christian Carion directs DRIVING MADELEINE.

In this interview, the director talks about working with Line Renaud and his good friend Danny Boon, and also about filming in Paris.

In DRIVING MADELEINE, a seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past.

Charles (Danny Boon) is a taxi driver in Paris, and he is having a very bad day.

Enter Madeleine (Line Renaud), an immaculately groomed nonagenarian, who informs Charles that the trip today will not be a direct one.

She is moving into a nursing home and would like to make some stops along the way predicting that this might be her last car ride through the city.

Their ride takes them through the momentous locations of her life and their brief friendship deepens as Madeleine listens to Charles confess his own worries.